And lo! There's a couple of pics of something called Armor Plus SG and I see a recolor of Tekkaman Blade and...Tekkaman Rapier (tragic sister to D-Boy you don't care anyway) and from Tekkaman Blade II AkiTekkaman!

WHAT THE FLAMING F**K?!

So is Bandai trying again with the line, or is this a cruel, horrible evil joke meant to taunt and frustrate me?

Thank you. I was ranting more about the people who buy the toys without knowing the show and thus wouldn't give a crap about the context and meaning of that particular figure. It boggles my mind that they made a figure of Miyuki/Rapier, let alone Aki,

My big sadness is that since unlike Samurai Troopers there isn't a 'civilian' version of the character under the armor, the Tekkaman Blade figures don't come with a poseable figure of the character untransformed.

And where's the Sol Tekkaman armor suit? They can get at least 2 versions out of that with minor additional tooling.

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> Thank you. I was ranting more about the people who
> buy the toys without knowing the show and thus
> wouldn't give a crap about the context and meaning
> of that particular figure.

You mean like most of the people on this site :v

> It boggles my mind that
> they made a figure of Miyuki/Rapier, let alone
> Aki,

Well Miyuki is important story wise. She's third after Blade and Evil more or less. Aki's the main girl and probably the only thing people like about Missing Link or Tekkaman Blade II. Other than the whole line about having D-boy spray his seed all over her.

Never saw Blade II myself.

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> My big sadness is that since unlike Samurai
> Troopers there isn't a 'civilian' version of the
> character under the armor, the Tekkaman Blade
> figures don't come with a poseable figure of the
> character untransformed.

Well the Tekkamans don't really break down as nicely as regular armored figures. It's kind of assumed that they all turn into that weird intermediate step. And plain clothes anime characters are more suited to statues or trading figures.

> And where's the Sol Tekkaman armor suit? They can
> get at least 2 versions out of that with minor
> additional tooling.

Because the mere idea of doing a Sol Tekkaman is collecting more dust than the actual Sol Tekkaman kits did. Plus Balzac's rebuilt Sol Tekkaman was kind of lame weapons wise. Like it traded the Powered Suit style shoulder cannon for those little things on its back that spray fermion blasts and the suit has to do a Guncannon pose just to use them. Lame-o.

If they do any Sol Tekkamans, they will definitely be exclusives. Tamashii Web is like the life support for Soul Spec and Armor Plus. VF Hi-Metal appears to have been terminated.

I'm wondering if this SG tag on the end of the Armor Plus name means they're not meant to be de-armored, because really, we just don't see the 'goblin' proto-Tekkaman form in any meaningful way.

Reason I'm so surprised about Miyuki is I'd think they would have made Tekkaman Lance, who while not that big a character he COULD share the same 'core' as Blade and Evil and thus reduce tooling costs.

Did they ever do the Armor Plus Blastor Blade? I don't see it listed at the Tamashii site.

Me, I'd love to see EVERY Tekkaman made, but I really doubt we're going to see that.

"Reason I'm so surprised about Miyuki is I'd think they would have made Tekkaman Lance, who while not that big a character he COULD share the same 'core' as Blade and Evil and thus reduce tooling costs. "

Yeah but that doesn't mean a lot people would want to buy Lance. Aki and Miyuki probably share some parts (being tekkagals) and better to make two important characters than one nobody cares about.

Yeah the SG means there's no removable armor.

>>Me, I'd love to see EVERY Tekkaman made, but I really doubt we're going to see that.

Yeah I think people like Tekkaman Blade more as a character than as merchandise. He gets to be in crossover games. Even sometimes alongside Detonator Orgun.